Usually when someone in an argument throws up a bit of what-about-ary - its because their argument against the proposition is very weak indeed. When that doesn't work, they get angry and start behaving inappropriately.

The truth is, all I have requested is a country of origin tag, specifically for Europe. But if feasible why not have a tag per country? It's just metadata, and makes it easier to search for stuff that I will then buy.

I do the same thing in the supermarket. I live in Scotland, and to ensure I have the most local produce available, I buy Scottish produce (beef, pork, etc). I buy bread in the same way. Why is it such a problem to do the same for video games? My gut feel is that those against the idea, know that their country might be a location that I won't buy from.

So what? I'm just one Whale who spends a silly amount of money on videogames. If they have nothing to worry about, they have nothing to fear.

I have a short list of countries I would prefer to not buy any goods or services from (not just games - anything at all):

North Korea
United States of America
Russia
China

Why? They do not respect the GDPR legislation, they do not think twice about stealing digital property back from consumers and they have absolutely awful governments, one of which has invaded a country that is part of Europe, and another who now supports them.

But actually my goal was only to ensure that any game I now buy, is only made in Europe. I don't get the faux outrage really, it was just a small, tiny, thing. A tag in a database saying "Made in Europe". <shrug>

First of all, no one is saying this except Amok who is making whataboutism arguments. You're projecting.

Second, gaming has always been divided both by gaming communities, genres, consoles, and stores. This is simply market fragmentation and is healthy for a competitive market. So I don't see your point.

What do gamers stand to lose if they're divided? The only alliance I can see is against DRM or anti-consumer decisions, which is why most of us are here.

Lastly, why would I want to be united with gamers? Some gamers here and elsewhere have said some objectively moronic things I definitely do not want to be associated with. So if being divided means having my own autonomy to make my own decisions to choose what I want to play or believe in that doesn't fall in line with what the mass market wants, I'd always choose my individualism (or divisionism in other people's views) 100% of the time.

Absolutely right, it shouldn't. The argument that it's already available a Google search away and therefore shouldn't be added is ridiculous. As Breja said, might as well get rid of screenshots, trailers, devpub info, filesize info because everything's already available on PCGW.

There's a good reason I stopped keeping track of that metadata and it's because I work 10+ hrs/d and can't track that shit anymore. That's a job that should be delegated to the store that already has access to that info and the labour we're already paying to update this to all the store pages. Truly one of the dumbest things I've heard in a while here.

Let me be clear: I do not condone the use of CD keys and similar gray sites.
However, it's clear to me that right now that both putin russia and trump usa are making war to Europe so I want to support European business instead of americans (since russia is already banned basically everywhere). I want to be as supportive to the rest of Europe as possible so that bullies can't do much damage other than what they are doing in their own countries.

And frankly, I am very sorry because I have always thought of the USA as a different but friendly country, not as an enemy. Trump's recent attacks on Zelensky and Europe with tariffs have made me change my mind. The USA is no longer a friendly Western democracy, perhaps it never was, perhaps it was only with us Europeans... but it is now clear that they do not want to protect Western values ​​but are only interested in money to the point of having sold his soul to putin and his dictatorship.
I thought that Trump's election the first time was just a protest vote and that it would never happen again. I thought that even the Republicans themselves (who have had many respectable leaders in the past) didn't even want to see that clown anymore.

Instead what I see is that now the USA is at the service of their new king Trump and that rich Nazi called Musk.
I'm so disgusted...

And let's be clear: the Italian government has disgusting people like Salvini too, and he and all his allies disgust me too... in Europe we have that dictator Orban in Hungary who continues to act as a Trojan horse for Putin. But just as in the US there are people who didn't vote for that clown Trump, here in Italy/Europe there are people who are not at fault. As an Italian and European citizen what I want to do is try to make the economy prosper here hoping that greater European integration means less power for the worst national governments (as in fact has already happened since the Italian government, to stay in Europe and not lose European money, had to make a lot of compromises and cannot do stupid things like the Trump government does in America).

This is why I am also in favor of introducing the country of origin in games.
It is a purely political issue. And I know that many do not like this expression and that some say that it is "stupid" to exclude beautiful games made in unfriendly countries but I do not agree. Politics is very important and making political choices is fundamental as far as I am concerned.
The choice to buy only drm-free games is absolutely political. The choice to boycott companies that exploit their workers is political. The choice to support companies in Europe is political.
If I did not have this type of mentality I would never have started using gog, but I would have simply stayed on steam.

Hmm...